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The personal website of Alex Weber

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Mostly links from around the web, presented with quotes and commentary. Sometimes I write long-form pieces too.

Posted on 20110804

Roland TR-808 flash drive takes synth style, leaves music to the pros (video)

via Engadget

Still trying to convince your friends that you’re a mad scientist DJ with a shrink ray? Show those heretic doubters you’ve … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110804

Google publicly accuses Apple, Microsoft, Oracle of patent bullying

via Ars Technica

Get out the fire extinguishers, because the patent fight between the tech … Read More >>

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A comic about the real scientific process

via Boing Boing

Made by scientist Paul Vallett for his Electron Cafe blog, this funny cartoon is essentially about the differences between how … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110803

Law prof: it would be legal to mint 2x $1 trillion platinum coins & use them to pay the US debt

via Boing Boing

Jack Balkin, a Yale Law prof, has a weird idea for solving the debt crisis. He says the law sets no limit on the amount of … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110803

OutRun AR project lets you game and drive at the same time, makes us drool

via Engadget

Cool game, or coolest game ever? That’s the question we were asking ourselves when we first came across Garnet Hertz’s … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110803

California judge: trolling with someone else’s Facebook is identity theft

via Ars Technica

From time to time, we will be running posts from Eric Goldman’s Technology & … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110802

Video: “Pour” painting

via Boing Boing

This mesmerizing video shows how Brooklyn artist Holton Rower created a series of paintings appropriately-titled … Read More >>

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Pocket Digicam Has a Real Tilt-Shift Lens

via Gadget Lab

Forget about those faux tilt-shift effects. When a special effect is baked into almost every consumer digicam out there, it has … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110802

Custom Cup for Ultra-Efficient Cookie Dunking

via Gadget Lab

The Taça solves that age old problem: how to dip a giant cookie into a tiny cup of milk? The traditional solution has been to … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110802

Localize It: Podponics Grows High-Tech Organic Produce In Shipping Containers

via Fast Company

Founded by a former software engineer, the company–which just received almost $1 million in funding–is working on ways to … Read More >>

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